Here is a New York Times article that mentions that is the law.

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They can be frisked and fingerprinted legally because it is the duty of the U.S. federal government to protect our borders.

I don’t have time to get into this. Suffice it to say, I don’t believe we lose our presumption of innocence when we cross an imaginary line.

If they are American citizen’s then declaring them enemy combatants without a trial would be a breach of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

The word “citizen” doesn’t appear a single time in the Bill of Rights, kerwin. Not once.

If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain this… I could afford to run around explaining it to everyone.

In all but a few instances, our Constitution refers to “people”, not “citizens”. The courts have consistently held that “people” covers damn near everyone that’s here legally.

It’ll probably take a couple more court cases to sort it all out, but that “enemy combatant” BS will either apply to everyone or no one.